Before Becoming NBA Prospects, the Boozer Twins Saved Their Brother’s Life

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Lisa Salters reported an E60 documentary called Blood Brothers about the family of former NBA star Carlos Boozer and their quest to save their son, Carmani, from sickle cell disease. But it turns out that journey was just the tip of the iceberg, because in April of this year — 16 years later — Blood Brothers was back on for a very different reason. ESPN NBA Draft Analyst Jonathan Givony joins host David Dennis, Jr. to take us through Lisa and E60’s reporting from 2008 and April of this year, and explain how a story of medical triumph ultimately landed in his own jurisdiction as the Boozer’s younger sons, twins Cameron and Cayden Boozer, became top NBA draft prospects. You can stream the E60 Documentary Blood Brothers on ESPN+. You can honor Jim Valvano and support ESPN’s V Week with a donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Dennis Jr., hosting the ESPN Daily podcast today,
0:06.4	and I want to share with you that across all of ESPN, it's V-week.
0:10.6	This is something we do every year to honor our teammate Jim Valvano
0:13.8	by supporting the V Foundation for Cancer Research,
0:17.5	the foundation that he announced in his unforgettable SP speech so many years ago.
0:21.6	Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
0:24.6	While lots of things have changed in the 30 years since that SP speech, the need for cancer research hasn't.
0:29.6	When you give to the V Foundation, 100% of your donation goes directly to research, making the dream of victory over cancer
0:38.4	more possible every single day. If you're able, we hope that you'll donate. Go to v.org
0:45.5	slash donate now and help support the critical work of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Thank you.
0:53.3	John Thinkevone, when was the first time you saw the twin brothers
0:56.9	Cameron and Caden Boozer playing basketball? So it was actually in April 2022. I was in New Orleans
1:07.0	at the NCAA Final Four. There was a USA basketball mini camp that they do every single year.
1:12.8	They bring about 80 of the best players in the country. And they bring some really, really young guys
1:17.4	sometimes too, freshmen in high school. And that's where I got to see these pair of 14-year-olds.
1:22.6	One of them was 6'8. The other was 6'2. I'd heard a little bit about them from their high school
1:28.6	coach, Andrew Moran, but it was my first time seeing them. And right off the bat, you can see
1:33.1	these two are absolutely special for their age. Today we're going to talk about these twins
1:38.0	in their quest to follow their dad, Carlos Boozer's footsteps into the NBA. But we're also talking
1:43.7	about the Boozer family because
1:45.0	it's V-Weak at ESPN.
1:47.3	And there is a part of their story off the court that deals with finding a cure to a particular
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